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Part One: How AI Chatbots Became Cult Leaders

May 5, 202656:16Society & Culture

Over the last year or so a series of news articles have sounded warnings about AI psychosis, and now an AI-generated cult, the Spiralists. Robert sits down with Blake Wexler to answer an important question: can a chatbot...

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Part One: How AI Chatbots Became Cult Leaders is an episode from Behind the Bastards by iHeartPodcasts. Over the last year or so a series of news articles have sounded warnings about AI psychosis, and now an AI-generated cult, the Spiralist...

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Published May 5, 2026, 56:16 long, audio available.

Part One: How AI Chatbots Became Cult Leaders

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